List of First Ascents

1971

Himmel og HelveteFA. Arild Meyer, Sjur Nesheim and Ulf Prytz made the first attempt on the general line in 7.1971. âÄú... but luckily we got rained off before we got into trouble,âÄù said Arild. Niels Poulsen and JÃ¸rgen Sundby added the pitch 3 - Yosemite Dihedral - in 1989. Ed Webster and Odd-Roar Wiik made the first complete ascent of the route on 12.7.1993 finishing at 1:30am the next morning.

1978

Vestpillaren original startenFA. Arild Meyer, Brynjar Tollefsen 18.6.1978. As part of Vestpillaren.Original avslutningFA. Arild Meyer, Brynjar Tollefsen 18.6.1978VestpillarenFA. Arild Meyer and Brynjar Tollefsen made the first ascent on their first try on 18.6.1978 (14 hours). The team carried their courage in their rucksac - pitons of all sizes, bongs and skyhooks. Meyer and Tollefsen swung leads, but high on the face, "we became very wet and cold." The upper section was climbed during a heavy rainstorm. "Shall we go down now?" asked Brynjar when the rain began. "Absolutely not!" replied Arild, typically determined to push on no matter what, and the pair succeeded. Twelve days later Arild returned with Finn Tore BjÃ¸rnstad and made the first ascent of the Normal avslutning (Normal Finish) on 30.6.1978. The first free ascent was done by Hans Christian Doseth and HÃ¥vard Nesheim using the Original avslutning in 6.1979. The popular Slanting Corner pitch of the Normalavslutning was first climbed by Helge Stokstad and Harald Henden in 1982.

1981

KorstogetFA. The first ascent of To krigere by Sjur Nesheim and Yngvar Julin in 1981 included pitches 8 to 11 for the first time. A similar line to todayâÄôs pitches 1 to 4 was first climbed by HÃ¥vard Nesheim and Tom Pedersen in 1979, but they finished up Vestpillaren. In 1980, Sjur Nesheim and Kjell Skog descended from the top of pitch 5 without bolting the crux slab. Bengt Flygel Nilsfors and Odd-Roar Wiik then added the necessary bolts and linked the complete free first ascent together, on their fifth attempt, in 8.1992To krigereFA. Sjur Nesheim, Yngvar Julin from 25.11.1981 to 1.12.1981. They finished the route in a storm after having had a fire on their portaledge!